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St- Paul Minn.
SATURDAY MAY 27,1899,
The Atlanta Constitution is very
wroth because the Postmaster General
has discontinued the post office at Lake
City, S. C, on account of the outra
geous murder of Postmaster Baker and
one of his children, the wounding of
Ms wife and two other children, the
^burning of the postmaster's residence,
which was also the postoffice, and its
-contents. It is rather hard, perhaps,
on the innocent people of Lake City, to
.be deprived of mail facilities, but they
are to blame for it. If they had as
promptly convicted and punished the
perpetrators of the crimes above stated
^and to which should be added that of
treason, as they usually do any Afro
American accused of crime, there
would have been no need for the dis
continuance of the postoffice. They are
shielding- those criminals by their ac
tions and are virtually particeps crim
i'inis. The whole affair arose from
stheir treasonable actions in refusing to
accept the postmaster duly appointed
"by the authority of the United States
government, simply because he was an
Afro-American. The men (God save
BUT 2P50 13GQS.
?^Av#
Mr. ScratcherI hear Henrietta la a splendid manager always planning, etc.
HusbandYes she is better at laying plans than anything else.
the mark) who committed those, crimes
are known to every man, woman and
child in Lake City and, instead of be
ing punished, they are glorified. Why,
if there was a town of the size of Lake
City in this country, peopled and con
trolled just as that eity was, except
that the colors of th& inhabitants were
changed, and the postmaster and his
family who would then be white, had
met the fate Baker and his family did,
that town would not have had a place
on the map in twenty-four hours aft
erward, but would have been merely a
pile of ashes and rubbish, and the per
petrators of the crime, as well as quite
a number of innocent Afro-Americans,
would have been food for the flames,
if there was any of their bodies left
after the usual pruning process was in
dulged in. We think they are getting
off entirely too easy by simply having
th'eir mail stopped. There would be
some way to get at the black men
KNOWN to have committed such
crimes and there should be some such
way to get at white ones other than
simply stopping their mail. The
whole action of the powers that be in
the Baker matter has been and con
tinues to be a monumental farce. Of
course we are pleased to see even this
little punishment meted out to Lake
City but we opine they will not be
subjected to that very long.
The meeting of the Presbyterian As
sembly in Minneapolis this week has
brought a number of very intelligent
Afro-Americans to that city, and they
have done much to prove that all the
Afro-Americans of the South are not
the ignorant, criminal brutes the daily
press would make folks, who don't
know, think them to be. In fact, in
point of intelligence they would com
pare very favorably with that best
minds in the Assembly.
President McKinley has consented
to present the diplomas to the gradu
ating class of Howard University,
Washington City, next Monday. This
will be quite a honor to the members
of the class and they will doubtless ap
preciate it if no reference is made to
their reaching out after the "unattain-
able."
Every day we read in the daily
press of the formation of a new trust
and it looks like everything in which
a combine can be made will be com
bined before the next session of con
gress and an anti-trust law will be of
no force and effect, unless it is retro
active.
The lynching fever is spreading and
has gone to Mexico. The victims are
same they are in the United States
and are lynched with the same damna
ble disregard for the innocence of the
victims.
MRS. HOWE EMPHATIC.
Author of the "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" on Lynching.
Boston, May 20.The anti-lynch
meeting called by the women of Bos
ton and vicinity .was held today, about
300 persons, mostly women, being
present. Mrs. Butler R. Wilson, wife
of a well known Afro-American citi
zen of Boston, presided. On the plat
form were, among others, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe and Mrs. Alice Freeman
Palmer, Mrs. Edna D. Cheney, Mrs.
Ridley, an Afro-American, and Mrs.
Howe were among the speakers. Mrs.
Howe said:
"I hold to it that the federal gov
ernment is bound to see to it that the
Afro-American vote in the South is
properly counted, and that military
protection be afforded the Afro-Amer
icans in dangerous sections. If the
central government cannot do this,
Americans might as well take down
their flag and raise the black flag of
piracy. HISTORIAN OF AFRO-AMERICAN
TROOPS.
Theopilus G. Steward, chaplain of
the Twenty-fifth United States
infanr
try, who has been detailed7
by the Sec.
retary of war to write a history of the
Afro-American regiments of the army,
was recommended for the w^rk.- by
Bishop B. W. Arnett,, of the African
Methodist Episcopal church. The^Af
ro-Americans of the country are very
proud of the part that they took in
the Civil war and in the late war with
Spain, and feel that Chaplain Steward
could give a more adequate account
of Afro-American valor in the army
than any one else. Chaplain Steward
is a native of Bridgeton, N. J., and
traces his descent on his mother's side
from John Fenwick, one of the lords
proprietors, who settled at Salem, to
which he gave its nanie, in 1665. The
Chaplain was educated at a divinity
school in Philadelphia. 'Besides be
ing a good Greek, Latin* and Hebrew
scholar, he also speaks German and
French fluently, and was at one time
stationed over' a church in Port-au
Prince, where he preached in French.
"A Charleston Love Story," a work of
fiction from his peri, is ndw in press.
Two of his sons are Harvard men, one
being a lieutenant of the volunteer
regiments another is in the Univer
sity of Michigan, from which he will
be graduated in medicine this spring.
WILL FAST AND PRAY.
National Council Sets Apart Friday,
June 2, for This Purpose.
New York, May 3.The National
Afro-American council has issued a
proclamation, calling upon the Afro
Americans, of this country to set apart
Friday, June 2, as a day of fasting and
prayer, and has called upon all minis
ters to devote the sunrise hour of the
following Sunday, June 4, to special
Sound the bugle and crack the whip.
And away we go! away we go!
A rollicking, clattering fly-a-way time,
Hear the tinkle of bells in a wonderful chime,
Now away with the bicyclethis is sublime.
Away we go and we're gone!
exercises in order that "God, the Fath
er of mercies, may take our deplorable
case in his own hands, and that if ven
geance is to be meted out, let God
himself repay."
The proclamation invites all the
prominent clergy of all denominations
to co-operate, and consists of a lengthy
setting forth of the present "indescrib
able barbarous treatment" of the Afro
American in this country. Reference
is made to their loyalty in foreign
wars, and the recent lynchings in the
South are denounced in the most stren
uous language.
OFFICERS
AND ADDRESS O THE AFRO-
AMERICAN COUNCIL.
PresidentBishop Alex. Walters.
Vice PresidentsBishop A. Grant, Bishop
G. W. Clinton, Bishop B. W. Arnett, Rev.
G. W. Lee, John C. Dancy, L. G. Jordon. R.
H. Terrell, Rev. G. W. Lee.
CounselorD. J. Jones.
SecretaryMrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett.
Assistant SecretaryR. W. Thompson.
TreasurerJ. W. Thompson.
Sergeant-at-ArmsJ. A. Bray.
ChaplainRev. F. J. Grimke.
Executive Committee.
*^U^*3!^fe!^3v ja Sr l^is&^&i&l^ fa*"*^ A
ChairmanT. Thomas Fortune, New York.
AlabamaA. J. Warner, J. W. Shea.
ArkansasE. C. Morris, John K. Rector.
CaliforniaJos. Francis. T. B. Morton.
ColoradoE. H. Hackley, P. A. Hubbard.
ConnecticutJ P. Peaker, Geo. A. Jenkins.
DelawareJ. A. Jason, O. D. Robinson.
FloridaM. M. Moore, M. M. Lswey.
GeorgiaW. A. Pledger, J. W. Lyon.
IllinoisCvru3 Field Adams, T. T. Allain.
IndianaR. W. Thompson, Geo. L. Knox.
IowaJ. Frank Blagburn, E. J. Sandford.
KansasH. C. Bruce, J. W. Jones.
KentuckyW. H. Steward. W. H. Gaines.
LouisianaP. B. S. Pinchback, James
Lewis.
Maryland^-Erneat Lyon, S. T. Tice.
MassachusettsC. S. Morris, J. H. Ferris.
MichiganW. L. Burton, Robt.. Pelham Jr.
MinnesotaJ. Q. Adams, F. L. McGhee.
MississippiJohn R. Lynch, James Hill.
Missouri-O. M. Wood, Peter H. Clark.
Nebraska.O. M. Ricketts.
NevadaWilliam Robinson.
New JerseyH. T. Johnson, Jesse Lawson.
New York-rT.: Thomas-Fortune, W.B. Der-are,'
rickw
North CarolinaG. H. White. H. P. Cheat
ham.
OhioJohn P. Green, H.C Smith.
^PennsylvaniaH. C. C. Asfwdod, N. F.
Moesell.
Rhode-Mandr-D. P. Brown, G.T Downing
South CarolinaG. W, Murray, W. D.
Crum.'
Tennessee-^!. C. Napier, J. T. Settles.
TexasW. E. King, H. T. Kealing.
UtahJ. F. Taylor.
VirginiaJohn Mitchell, W. L. Taylor.
WashingtonH. C. Caton. Con. A. Rldeout.
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West VirginiaJ. R. Clifford, J. McHenry
Jones.
WisconsinJ. J. Miles, Shelbon Minor.
District ColumbiaDaniel Murray, E. E.
Cooper.
New MexicoH. O. Flipper.
OklahomaB. P. McQa.be. S. D. Rasaell.
SUBCOMMITTEE
Of the Executive Committee, Being
the Real Working Force of the
Organization.
Alexander Walters, New Jersey.
T. Thomas Fortune, New York.
I. B. W. Barnett, Illinois.
Cyrus Field Adams, Illinois.
George H. White, North Carolina.
Benjamin W. Arnett, Ohio.
John Mitchell Jr., Virginia.
G. W. Clinton, Missouri.
J. P. Peaker, Connecticut.
C. S. Morris, Massachusetts.
W. A. Pledgei Georgia.
I. J. Bradley, Kansas.
T. J. Sanford, Iowa.
Daniel Murray, District of Columbia.
Robert Pelham, Michigan.
H. T. Johnson, New Jersey.
A sub-committee consisting
1 of Cyrus
Field Adams, Daniel Murray and
George White was appointed to rep
resent the executive committee in all
matters of legislation in which it may
concur and which it may recommend.
ADDRESS TO THE NATION
Adopted by the National Afro-Amer-
ican Council at Washington,
Dec. 30, 1S98.
In the present condition of the race, which,
is abnormally disturbed in one section of the
country and comparatively composed in tie
other three, it is easy to reach the conclu
sion that we cannot arrive at the desired end*
wholly through any one method* There are
certain things which those of us who lire
in the South can accomplish, and certain
other things which those of us who live in the
North can accomplish. We may take differ
ent methods to reach the same ends, but the
results will be for the common advantage.
In the North the work of agitation, of pro
test and petition and of political conduct, is
essential to the cause. The Northern and
Western mind needs to be constantly agitated
upon our grievances and accurately informed
as to their nature and extent. In the South
the work of education and internal develop
ment can best be determined and carried en
by the wise men of us in the Southern states
who have done so much since the War of the
Rebellion to pave the way for our future
status as men and citizens in all the walks of
life. We think that it is important that th:3
view of the matter should not be Ic* sight of
for a-moment.
We must be broad and IjDeral in our policy
and interpretation or the intentions of all
members of the race who baye capacity and
probity, and who are working for the general
good. The vast extent of our country and the
multiplicity of interests and the local preju
dices of any sort,'outgrowing from phenom
enal ethnic differentiations, which must have
proper time for inevitable assimilation, manes
a"C CAIXOU O 'X-JHIE: COAOHSR.
imperative a broad toleration among us of
wide difference of opinion as to the beat ways
and means to secure the best results in given
localities, which must determine the final
result for weal or woe.
So much of a general character may be ac
cepted without sacrificing one principle of
manhood or citizen right, for that would be
repugnant to our sense of absolute justice,
to which we adhere without deviation or
quibble.
As a fair statement of our convictions we
affirm it that there is no manhood or citizen
right guaranteed to us by the federal consti
tition which we do not claim and denial of
which by state constitutions against which we
do not protest.
Passing from abstract statement of senti
ment to concrete statement of fact, we have
to congratulate ourselves that the race has
everywhere grown stronger and stronger in
all the elements of Christian morality, of
thrift and of intelligence. There is no con
tention here. Friends and foes alike admit
it. Those who predicted that we should starve
in a condition of freedom have lived to see
ua produce, more and consume more than
in a condition of Slavery those who prophe
sied that we were incapable of mastering the
common rudiments of education have lived
to see us fill 200 colleges in the South with
anxious students and to supply 25,000 compe
tent teachers to the public schools of the
South, upon whose conrpetentcy white super
intendents of education passed judgment
while our ignorant ministry has been trans
formed into one of t-ne strongest and most
intelligent forces for good in the republic,
and the high professions of law and medicine
and
journalismconsiderable
tives1
It seems to U3 strange and unnatural that
we should have to turn from the magnificent
record we have made.as slaves and freemen,
in peace and in war, to specific grievances
which go at the very roots of our citizenship,
and to anpeal from the injustice and inhu
manity of a portion of our fellow citizens to
the justice and fairness and Christian char
ity inherent in tbe heart and the soul ot the
Anthony Hope's new romance, "The Countes"
Emilia," begining in the May Ladies' Home Jour
nal, will be read with the greatest interest by its
author's admirers in this country. In the very
opening chapter the reader's curiosity is aroused
in the liveliest possible way.
The May Atlantic opens with an article upon
the Australasian Extensions of Demoeracy by H.
de R. Walker, who discusses the management of
affairs, especially financial, in the five great Paci
fic colonies of England, their methods of govern
mental loans, their indeptness, their banking
deoosits and tax regulations, and their relief and
pension systems,
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j* school history of the United States, by Joti
Bach McMaster, professor of American history
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507 pages, price $1.00, American Bonk Company,
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to tchool histories, but for the remarkable power
of condensation which it exhibits, combined
with a masterly literary style which renders the
whole narrative one of absorbing iuteresa,
great American people. But we have to do
so. We do it with a confidence born of
Christian faith and 250 years of education in
American law and precedent that we shall
not appeal in vain. We have lived in darker
Up the mountain and down the pass,,
And away we go! away we go!
A jumbled up, jabbering, jolly old lot,
Having money to kindle which same I have not,
For my share of the outing was paid on the spot
And gobbled up my last ten.
have competent representa-
in every community in tb
republic, which command Che respect and
confidence of their fellows.
We affirm it as a matter of fact, which
cannot be refuted, that the Afro-American
race is stronger and bebter today fcha ever
before in its history that it is mora hopeful,
more moral, more religious, more intelligent
that it has larger bank deposits, owns more
real and personal property, and lives in bet
ter homes. As ex-Gov. R. B. Bullock, of
Georgia, recently expressed it in the New
York Sun, no people have ever made greater
progress in a given lengtlh of time. -Where
it was confidently expected and predicted that
wo would become a dependent, pauper race
in a condition or freedom, we have proved
ourselves a self-sustaining race, producing
more cotton and corn and other .wealth as
freemen to the enrichment of the' commerce
of the states of tbe South than was ever
dreamed of in the philosophy of the slave
master. We appeal to the statistics of cot
ton and cereal and mineral production before'
and since the war to sustain our contention.
We have not produced alltlhe wealth of the.
South since the warwe have produced our
honest share, produced vastly more as a free
man than we produced as a slaveand, in
stead of becoming public charges have be
come self-sustaining and reliant citizens, who
share tbe wealth we.bave produced and
rejoice in it and in the strength the expansion
and the glory of the republic, of Which we
as Or. David Gregg, of, Brooklyn.. Te
cently affirmed, among the first families, and
in Whose past achievement and present glory,
in war and in peace, we claim, by right of
honest labor and sacrifice and devotion, a co
equal share and participation.
Jean C. Havez.
hours than those of today we have s?/
.liiicriiiux justice and fair play go through
fire aud death and devastation and come out
purified by the faith that abides in the God
of Destiny, and we expect to see it do so
again. Our optimism is as expansive as
American love of justice and fair play. And
when properly appealed to, when property
aroused, we do not believe that the world
can furnish a sublimer reply than it can and
will give. And we do not look to one auc
tion for a response but to all sections, and
especially to the South where we know that
we have friends who have been tried in the
furnace of experience and found true, and
who will be faithful in the future, as they
have been in the past, if we shall be true to
ourselves, true to the God who brought us
out of the Egypt of slavery into the Judea
of freedom.
But no race has ever risen out of the shad
ows into the sunlight without fierce oppo
sition. We have been no exception to the
rule. And all the way to the top of the lad
der, where Daniel Webster declared there
was plenty of room, however long it takes
and time is the most important factor in the
economy of God in working out the destiny
of races and nationswe shall encounter
fierce antagonism, but we shall win in^ the
end, for we shall have God and justice and
fair play on our side.
In view of the present condition of affairs
in which we find ourselves we beg to direct
attention to the following facts:
1. Since 1868 there has been a steady and
persistent determination to eliminate us from
the politics of the Southern states. We are
not to be eliminated. Suffrage is a federal
guaranty, and not a privilege to be conferred
or withheld by the states. We are not op-
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"A Woman's Lll'e Work" is the record or re
markable facts in a. heroic life. Mrs. Haviland
was a Quakeress who devoted her life and strength
in helping thousands of fugitive slaves over the
underground railway from bondage to freedom.
The book is full of thrilling incidents. This
work shows what the slaves suffered and what
fearful risks tbey ran to secure their freedom. 624
pages. Price Sl.pO, S. B. Shaw, publisher. 74*
76 W. Lake street, Chicago. Substantially bound
in cloth with red edges.titled stamped on side and
back vrith aluminum.
Harriet Waters Preston, taking as her subject
the recently published letters of Robert and Eliza
beth Barrett Browning, contributes a sympathetic
and attractive acconnt of the Jove-life of these two
distinguished authors in the June Atlantic. She
shows how by their natural qualities and their
early training they were eminently fited for their
later union, and proves this to be an eminent e
ception to old sayings as to the unhapp\ne8S cans,
ed by the coming togather of people of genius,
this having been in eyery respect "a marriage of
trne minds'* which did not "admit impediments.''
The versatility of the composers of the tighter
and more popular forms of songs and instrument
al music-is'amply shown by the variety contained
iu the new.music for the current month. Start
ing with the broadly comic of which their are tjro
specimens, "Buy and Buv," (Will A- Heclan)
and "The Waldorf'Hyphen'Astoria," (Jack!
son Gourand) we are led by irregular graduation,
to the ultra-sentimental, which takes the form of
"In the Shadow of the Rockies," (Jefferson & Ir
ving), and 'MandyLee." (Tburland Cbattaway)
both particularly good specimens of their class.
Then is the song of the lovelorn and assertive
swaiu, who sings that "There are Other Girls, but
None Like Mine," (Dan Packard), and the pro
duction of the descriptive wliter in this case a
"story song" called "Your Mothers Wedding
Ring." (C. D, Bingham). The admirers of "co-n"
songs" are also well provided for "Forget it
Don't You Caret" (Williams & Walker), and 'Tse
Workin'I'se HustlinV (Powers & Gouraud), at
testing that tbe darkey ditty is as irrepressible as
ever while the-juvenile continent is looked after
in "Columbia Ann," (Maribel Seymour), a clever
child ?ong.
posed to legitimate restriction of .the suffrage,
out we insist that restrictions shall apply
alike to all citizens of all states. We are
willing to accept an educational or property
qualification, or both. V/e insist that neither
of these was intended or is conserved by the
new constitutions of Mississippi, South Caro
lina, or Louisiana. Their framers intended
and did disfranchise a majority of their citi
zenship because of "race, color, and previous
condition," and we therefore call upon the
congress to reduce the representation of
those states, in the congress, as provided and
made mandatory by section 2 of article XIV.
of the constitution. We call upon Afro-Amer
icans everywhere to resist by all lawful means
the determination to deprive them of their
suffrage rights. If it is necessary to accom
plish this vital purpose to divide their vote
in a given state we advise that they divide it.
The shibboleth of party must give way to
the shibboleth of self-preservation.
2. The increase of mob and lynch law in
the republic must be a source of regret and
grief to every law-abiding citizen. It has
become a source of reproach at home and
abroad. We feel that this cancer on the body
politic is breeding a contempt for law
which will spread over the whole body of the
nation unless a stop be put to it. The re
cent outbreaks of it in the Carolinas have
shocked and disgusted the nation. We regret
that the president of the United States saw
fit to treat with silence this vital matter in
his second annual message to congress.
Yet we indulge the hop* that he will use his
good offices to settle this matter to the satis
faction of all concerned and the honor and
glory of the nation.
3. The separate, car laws have grown to
such provoking proportions, and they are so
unjust, degrading, and oppressive in their
operations, time we aeem it urgent to direct
attention to them here. We urge and advise,
in the interest of justice and decency, that
the graduated passenger rate prevailing in
North Carolina be substituted for the in
famous -,stem now in force in most of the
other stes of the South. It is a principle
of common law that a man shall pay for
what he wants ajwl get what he pays for.
Unider the prevailing system a contract made
in New York with a railroad or other com
mon carrier is not worth the paper it is
written on south of North Carolina. Is this
fair or just, or in accordance with common
or statute law practice in the United States.
A contract valid in one state of the republic
should be valid in every statewith all othef
citizens than Afro-Amerioans it is.
4. In the interest of humanity, we request
that the penal institutions of the South be
re-formed. Tbe horrors of them depicted by
George W. Cable years ago instead of growing
better, have grown worse. The indiscriminate
herding of males and females and juveniles
in the convict camps of the South constitutes
one of the most glaring scandals in the ad
ministration of jnstiee in the republic Sepa
rate the males from the females give the
juveniles asylums of their own and the op
portunity to reform. The other states of the
Union do it, why can't the South? It has
wealth enough, it needs,only inclination. We
appead to its inclinationi. As a matter of
Tact there must be no less than 500,000 Afro
Amerioans in the South who are held in in
voluntary service, contrary to the thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States and the peonage statutes thereof.
5. Intelligent citizenship is the strongest
safeguard of the state. The taxation for
school purposes in the Southern states is
wholly inadequate to obliterate the abnormal
illiteracy of those states, due in large iart
to the maintenance of separate schools for
the two races, necessitating a double expen
diture of monies, we suggest that a part of
the public domain of such states as have
public lands be devoted to school purposes.
fi. We feel that a. more general distri
bution of the Afro-American race throughout
the states of the Union- and the new terri
tories of-the republic, in order to reduce the
congested population of the Southern states,
would do much to simplify the race problem
in those states, and we urge that such dis
tribution -be encouraged in all reasonable
way. We have no sympathy whatever with
the schemes of those who wish to have the
race leave the United States for foreign coun
tries. We shall remain' here and fight out
our destiny in the land of our fathers.
7. We favor both higher and industrial edu
cation and we are grateful at the splendid
growth of the love of education manifested
by the eagerness with which our people fill
aM avenues of education' open to them.
8. We are gratified at the development of
business enterprises of all sorts among ua
and we wish to encourage all such as being
among the strongest levers inthe uplift of the
race. We submit our cause to the fair-mind
ed men of our own land' and of the world at
large, and invoke divine interposition in our
behalf.
development
as ma i said have been
ElIIIEATIIIHAL.
8JUIMH TKOUHHCAL SEHIHAIT
MU&, SWOMIA.
AIMS AND METHODS
Ifce aha of this schoolfettoe sraetleal a-safe
ta aatelnf men toward n MU in the into if.
Ita umt of atady Is broad i practical
Meala an big* its work la thoroogfci ttsai *ae
tea fraaftt, systematic, dear and slmnH.
COURSES O STUDY.
VIM refalar Cause af itndy oceanic*
aaaeoT aoTantMhaasef work laths
__ta af thefltoafaal instoactle
in tha leading theological aeaainaris*
sapamaa^'ar^aotosieal^taatoae^a ^aaaalj|
wnhmmi seaantry.
EXPENSES AND AID.
/Tatttoaand jeaawent are free. Tito asset
mat feretnosata oca plainly famished, feat
^oari aaa ba had for aaaca aoUaw par aaattv
BaUdlagi asatoa taaa.
Aid from leans witboat lataraat, and gifts afl
Manda, an graftedtodeserragatadento who da
wMirntmoftt in the Una af aelf help. Ha TOUM
asaa with grace. giftSi and aaergy, need he da*
aiivad of tha advantaiaa maw apaaed to Mat
bis seminary. For farther particnlara addraast
Bar. Wtuss F. Tsaaauaaa. ft D-. PraaHrafc
JUnta,
LGKSTE.1N NORTON UNIVERSIT*
SANE SPRING, BULLITT COUNTY, KV-
*Industrial training will set to aaotion tea thec*s*i
wheel*."
KEY. WM. J. EIMMOS'J, D. D., Li. D.,
Co-fouad3 and tat ChaaoaUaT
THE LOCATION.
The Xekatein Norton Univerhfty la situated at Cat
Spring, Ky., twenty-nine toii-ja from Louisville, KT.,-*
& or to* most be*llby acd quirt settlements in tttt
Sthtetbe county being what te stnorn as a crobibitiof
eoonty for many yean Th* building yi grounds ait,
on fo*7 Bill of rich, rolling laud, jrt^nded on all
fetes by mountain streams, dashing miniature cataract*,
taiga mountains, peopled with timber of ninny vri4
aoeeies. In this quiet .-ptreal sway from tbe bustla 4
ity life, free from tbe unheMlthy eedactions and allar*
saents of places of vice and unwholesome amusements)
onefindsstudy easy, recreation helpful, and i be physical
powers developed and secured. All this plays no units*)
portan* in a student's life, and in aptly suited
-i:990prepare ioi un active lite.
."tEPARTMENTS.
*riculture Blacksmitaiag,
Cabinet Making, Plain Sewing,
Telegraph Print{g
Cooking, Bnsirx-. OollaapL
Poultry Aoisiav, Dress Malting,
Carpentry,
Literary, Pho os/oclw,
U.%you Wcist,
"tailoring, Apiaculture, Barber Sbei carpentry
work Bbops in Woods red Metals,
Shorthand and Type Writing,
fainting in Oil andWater,
Maiical Conoervaiory.
The above departments ore un-i&r competent profaa*
ors and instructorsgraduates and sneczBUsts in tlw
branches they teach. They bail &omObeclin, Howant.
State University, Chicago Manual Training Sckooi,8cai
lfbrmal School, Bhode Island, and other of our btC3
Institutions.
Our classes and studies are soarranged that iiiii_
may study what is -most desirable, lsave oft*at any stagn,
recruit their health orfinances,and rettUB to .Jmpl9t
the course at any fnture time. Thetnae to fiinub an#
course is the least possible, consistent with thorouge
work in all departments.
TERMS.
Booed, roosc.fuel, tnitio.n and waahirg,$6-0O-pe moatth
Btuden.n may entei *rt any time in the year.
HCIP ron aruocrrra.
Deserving students may have the privilege of extaa.
reduction in proportion to the work they are willing af
4o. We ask patronage not only on Account of ourTota
rats- but on account of the ver-v bigb character of tfer
work dona. Our accommodatroat arefirst-classasm
fibred a-like to both BX*.
Persons en rout* te Cane Sprms, By., via Loojavula
a find free accommodation at So. bit laurel
Louisville, Ey.
Joccatalfligueg andail bnauxaes adlreea tha 1
RCV. C.H. PARRISH, A M.
O OF TBK O
NEW ORLEANS UNIVERSITY
Admits Men and Women of all Races,
$30. Ninth Year, opens Sept. 14th.
Well Equipped, Thorough Instruction
Address 5318 St. Charles.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
SHAW UNMS1TY
For both sexes. Department* of Law, Mediclm
Pharmacy, Music, Missionary Training, College,
College Preparutory, EnKlifh snd industrial. Thla
\er beifan Tuesday, Orrolwr l*t For catalogue*
circular* and other information,address.
PRESCHAS F- MESE&YE
Raw igh, N. C.
Morristown Normal College.
FOUNDED I N 188!
Fonrteen teachers. Blegant and com
todlons buildings. Climate unsurpassed.
Departments: College Preparatory. Nor-,
mal, Enzlisb, Music, Shorthand, Type
writing and Industrial Training.'
FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
Will pay for board, room, light, fuel,
tuition aud incidentals for the entire
yjar. board 96.00 per month, tuition 92.
per term. Students last year 811. Fall
term begins Sept. 10, 1898 Winter term
Tan. 8,1890. Thorough work done In each
departments. Send for ciramlar, to tha
president.
REV- JUDSON 8. HILL D. D.
Mcrristuwn, Tens
CENTRAL TENNESSE COLLEGE
NASHVILLK,11TENNESSEE..
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CANS SPIUMSj, aafj,
G0D HJLTH MADE OF O.YE BLOOD
ALL XATI0X8 OF .VEX"
IS TH* MOTTO OP
leo
Christian, non-sectarian. Three College ronra
aa. Music, Academy, Normal, Manual. Tuition
free. Incidental fee 54.90 a term. Kxpensea low.
No salct-ms. 269 white and 217 Afro-Americaa
students. Go 1000 miles if aaad ha to 6VJ Uu Bsm
Efcteation. Address,
Pass. W. 6. PBOST. D.. Pint, KT.
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THE MEDICAL SGHGOL
k*'*
-"formal Preparatory,,
College, Iheological, Medical. Dental,
,!?!.'Law. Parmacen-Inl.
Musical, Africa Trainin School
$9 to $14 per schoo
.-fiicn Over forty instructors. Attendee? last
m^.K n.
fro
E:fpen8e
7l(? For further information and catalogue
address the President, J. Bradou, Nashville, Teiu.
IftflEnls^
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THE APPFAL,
CHICAGO, ILL